Here is to each of you who are sharing your time, talents and treasure to make this world a better place. Whose life is characterized by love. A love that the darkness cannot destroy. The love described in 1 Corinthians 13.
What if I speak in the most elegant languages of people or in the exotic languages of the heavenly messengers, but I live without love? Well then anything I say is like the clanging of brass or a crashing cymbal.
What if I have the gift of prophecy? Am blessed with knowledge and insight to all the mysteries? Or, what if my faith is strong enough to scoop a mountain from its bedrock? Yet I live without love? If so, I am nothing.
I could give all that I have to feed the poor. I could surrender my body to be burned as a martyr. But if I do not live in love, I gain nothing by my selfless acts.
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn’t envious. Doesn’t boast, brag or strut about. There’s no arrogance in love.
It’s never rude, crude or indecent. It’s not self-absorbed. Love isn’t easily upset. Love doesn’t tally wrongs or celebrate injustice but truth. Yes, truth is love’s delight!
Love puts up with anything, and everything that comes along. It trusts, hopes and endures no matter what. Love will never become obsolete.
Now as for the prophetic gifts, they will not last. Unknown languages will become silent, and the gift of knowledge will no longer be needed. Gifts of knowledge and prophecy are partial at best, at least for now. But when the perfection and fullness of God’s kingdom arrive. All the parts will end.
When I was a child. I spoke, thought and reasoned in childlike ways as we all do. But when I became a man. I left my childish ways behind.
For now we can only see a dim and blurry picture of things. As when we stare into polished metal. I realize that everything I know is only part of the big picture.
But one day, when Jesus arrives. We will see clearly, face-to-face. In that day I will fully know. Just as I have been wholly known by God.
But now faith, hope and love remain. These three virtues must characterize our lives. The greatest of these is love.
Have a lovely life guys!
Be a VOICE shouting into the wilderness.
“CHRIST is returning!”
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